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Type A Images has been featured on The Rock and Roll Bride blog, The Offbeat Bride Blog, WeddingWire's Brides Choice for 2010 and 2011, and The Knot Best Of Weddings for 2011. Type A also offers a hospice photography program called Kindred Spirits through the Beloit Regional Hospice, which was featured as WPPI's Photolanthropy of the Month for September 2010.

4.11.2009

Today is an anniversary. The anniversary of being handed a box and being told to fill it with all the junk in my office. Yup...one year ago today I joined millions of unemployed Americans....I was fired.

The moments after being told, no matter HOW you were told, (in this case I was given the ole' "We're going in a different direction" speech) your heart drops, and panic sets in. And oh the panic was there. I had a mortgage, a kid....expenses!

But as the post-canned days passed other doors opened....and now a year later I can look back on April 11th as a gift.

The biggest gift they gave me, above anything else, was the gift of time. I couldn't know it at the time but I was going to NEED that time. Time to really connect with my daughter, time to spend with my ailing grandmother, time to find a new passion.

I relish my time with Betty now, even on the days when I'm tired and want nothing more than a nap. And had I still been employed at my old company I never would have been able to take the days I did spending time at Grandma's side as she slipped away. Had I still been working there, Type A Images never would have happened.

A lot of people are facing the dreaded pink slip these days, job loss is something touching more families than we can ever know. But, in some ways, losing a job can be gaining a life. Take the time to really seek out what you want, what matters to you, which path is better.

I toyed with the thought of even THANKING my ex-employer for cutting me free. It truly transformed my life in a way I could have never imagined. The time being the greatest gift of all.